X-26 Tasers on belt; more accessible The likelihood of having it when they need
it is not good, Zuidema said. We didnt see
results with the M-26, not because it didnt work, but
because it was not carried.
Then last year, 40 of the X-26 models were added, Zuidema said. These
models are more compact and will fit on an officers belt. The goal, Zuidema said, is to make the X-26 Tasers
standard issue for all sworn officersThe Taser uses electrical impulses to
contract the muscles and create a pain response, said Staley. The
impulses mimic the motor signals sent out by the brain and
override them, causing the muscles to contract. http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/lynchburg_police_enjoying_success_of_tasers/3093/

DoD largest contract with Tasers TASER Intl announces largest
contract in company history at $515K; contract was a follow on
contract (TASR) 28.13
+0.10: -- Update -- TASR announced that it has received follow-on
funding from the Dept of Defense through the
U.S. Marine Corps and the Office of Naval Research. The research
contract, in excess of $515,000 is the largest in co's history.
The funding is in response to a proposal that was submitted by
TASR to continue the development of its new Extended Range
Electronic Projectile technology.

Death by Taser Medical examiners have found that
Taser electric stun guns may have played a role in at least five
deaths, contradicting the manufacturer's claim that the weapons
never killed or injured anyone, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Medical examiners in three cases involving suspects who died in
police custody cited Tasers as a cause or a contributing factor
in the deaths, The Arizona Republic reported. In two other cases,
Tasers could not be ruled out as a cause of death.
The Scottsdale-based company created a report detailing 42
cases of people who died after being shot by a Taser.
The company claims the stun guns were cleared every time. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/29/health/main658209.shtml

EPIC : Vomit Guns ; causing imbalance in the earEPIC, for Electromagnetic Personnel Interdiction
Control. The idea is that intense radio-frequency emissions
 capable of passing through walls  would be used to
temporarily disrupt the balance and coordination functions of
targets' inner ears, knocking them down relatively harmlessly."unconscious vomiting would seem to present
something of a choking hazard."http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/07/us_navy_project_cookie_toss/

MicroWave guns, and Gunslinger and "sheriffs"
Office of Force TransformationUsing technology similar to that
found in a conventional microwave oven,
the beam rapidly heats water molecules in the skin to cause
intolerable pain and a burning sensation. The invisible beam
penetrates the skin to a depth of less than a millimetre. As soon
as the target moves out of the beam's path, the pain disappears

Used
upon CiviliansBecause there are no
after-effects, the United States Department of Defence believes
that the weapons will be particularly useful in urban
conflict. The beam could be used to scatter large crowds
in which insurgents operate at close quarters to both troops and
civilians.

It's
all about pain by CONTROL ( ADS ..active denial system )The skin gets extremely hot, and
people can't stand the pain, so they have to move - and move in
the way we want them to," said Col Wade Hall of the
Office of Force TransformationRich Garcia, a spokesman for the
Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico, where the systems
were developedArmored
vehicles called "sheriffs" to carry ADS guns

Stun Guns kill .... 42 deaths TheRepublic's
review of autopsies and interviews with medical examiners found
Tasers have been linked to at least five deaths.Medical examiners in three cases involving suspects who
died in police custody cited Tasers as a cause or a
contributing factor in the deaths. In two other cases, Tasers
could not be ruled out as a cause of death.
These deaths raise questions about a weapon police routinely
use on drunks, shoplifters, mentally
ill people and others who refuse to obey
commands.To promote the guns' safety, Taser
officials created a special report detailing 42 cases
of people who died after being shot by a Taser. They say the stun
guns were cleared each and every time.
The report also omits published findings of a medical examiner
who concluded that electrical shocks from a Taser contributed
directly to the death of a man in an Indiana jail.

But relatives of those who have died in Taser-related incidents
say the company rushes its defense, predicting the outcome of
cases before investigations are finished.
Kelly Deitrich, whose brother, Raymond Siegler, died in
February after being shot by police with a Taser in a Minneapolis
group home for mentally ill people,
said Taser's explanations are misleading.
But in 1999, Taser introduced the Advanced M26, promising instant
incapacitation without injury; its
50,000-volt charge overrides
the central nervous system, forces muscle contraction and is
virtually impossible to shrug off.

Kohr noted that jailers at the Monroe County jail used a Taser
multiple times on Borden.
"They juiced my brother to death," Borden's brother,
Steve, says. "They used it and used it and used
it."
Someone shot with a Taser involuntarily contracts into a
semi-fetal position; hands bunch into fists, knees buckle and the
person drops to the ground, frozen in the same position until the
current is cut.
But as use of the stun guns spreads, the number of people dying
in incidents involving Tasers keeps growing.
In June, a Minnesota man died after police shot him with Tasers,
sprayed him with a chemical and hit him with batons when he
refused to stop shouting in the middle of the street.http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/0718taser-main18-CP.html

"Like being in boiling water" The (painful) body electric January 15, 2004 By Michael Kanellos
In case you've ever wondered, a blast from a Taser--the
electronic gun police use to stun criminals--hurts.
It's like having nail guns applied to your hands and feet while
you're being dunked in a vat of boiling water. I
learned this the hard way, during a live demonstration at the
Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which ended Sunday.
(Taser International showed up, because it is bringing a model to
the consumer market, for personal protection, in July.)
Worse, you remain fully conscious. So for the single second the
50,000 volts from the gun coursed through my system, I could hear
myself shout, "AAH! STURG! AAH!" at the top of my lungs
in the crowded Las Vegas Convention Center.http://news.com.com/2010-7353_3-5141035.html

Stun Grenades kill --------"No Knock" policy N E W Y O R K, May 16---A 57-year-old
woman with a heart condition died today after police mistakenly
raided her apartment with a stun grenade, authorities said.Police were searching for a Harlem
drug dealer's cache of drugs and weapons, but kicked down the
door to the apartment of city employee Alberta Spruill instead,
police said.
Within an hour, the woman entered cardiac arrest and died, police
said.

Weapon
of Choice in Arizona ( on Univ. campuses too ) The growing weapon of
choice in Arizona law enforcement is yellow and black and stings
like 50,000 bees.

In Arizona, 74 law enforcement agencies are testing or using
Tasers, non-lethal weapons that take down suspects with a 50,000-volt, pulsating electrical charge but leave no permanent damage. Tasers are being
tested even in London, where the bobbies historically have not
carried firearms.

Other agencies around the
state have Tasers assigned to each squad or available to check
out. Even the Arizona State
University Department of Public Safety has purchased four. That's enough to equip each shift, and the
department plans to purchase more.

Other non-lethal options,
such as stun guns that require direct contact, pepper spray and
batons, use pain to coerce
surrender. Tasers give
suspects no choice, stopping them in their tracks with
muscle contractions.

And though there
have been in-custody deaths of suspects after a Taser was used,
the Taser shot has never been determined as the cause of death.

The weapon is fully trackable. A computer chip date-stamps every
time the trigger is pulled. The cartridges have serial numbers
and when fired, they release confetti with the serial numbers on
them. Investigators at a scene involving several officers can
determine who fired and how many timeshttp://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0513tasers.html

Less
lethal...more TortureAmong products obtained by the Home
Office are an electric stun gun that paralyses the central
nervous system, a device that temporarily blinds the target by
overloading the optic nerve, and a weapon that fires bean bags
filled with lead shot, knocking the target to the ground.
Officials from the defence evaluation and research agency have
also travelled to California to investigate a laser that fires an
ultra-violet beam that paralyses the subject. Prototypes of the
"tetanizing beam weapon", a version of which can
disable the electrical system of a car, tank or aeroplane, will
be ready for testing within a year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4170976,00.html

Police
in London to use stun guns (taser guns)Dart Guns....3rd way choiceThe "taser" gun, which
uses an electrical shock to cause temporarily paralysis, could be
introduced by the end of the year.
The move is designed to give Metropolitan Police officers more
non-lethal options when tackling violent offenders, said a
Scotland Yard spokeswoman.The spokeswoman said:
"The Metropolitan Police would like to see the use of less
lethal weapons such as the
air taser, an
electrical device, and is looking at the possibility at the
moment."

Tasers work by firing a two-pronged dart,
connected to the gun by an electrical wire, into the victim.
Propelled by an air cartridge, the dart can
penetrate most clothing at a range of 30ft.

An electrical charge over-rides the central
nervous system,causing uncontrollable muscle contractions.
These almost always render the victim
harmless as most people curl up into the foetal position
immediately. "The risks to health are
thought to be small."

How
the Stun Gun Works: AnatomyElectrical signals - taser
waves or T-Waves -overpower the body's normal electrical signals,
temporarily confusing the nervous system. ....according to the
Guardian newspaper, a pregnant woman in the
US miscarried after being hit by a taserhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1468000/1468188.stm
Tasers: From the Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4231746,00.html
TASERS, LASERS and Plastic Bulletsabused to violate human rights. The
second is the laser
dazzler, which was on
public display for the first time at the exhibition in Quantico.
[Marines-Virginia]LE Technologies has manufactured models costing between $5,500
and $8,000. Their sales director,
Donald Madden, said the dazzlers temporarily deny
a subject his vision for as long as a person's eyes were targeted
by the green beam. Green was chosen because it is six times more
powerful than red in daylight and 3,000 times brighter at night.

He claimed that this was within the safety limits set down by the
US authorities to prevent damage to the retina. He was even
willing to support this claim by testing the product on himself.http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4211853,00.html
Global use of electric shock for tortureThis is a
fast-growing industry, whose products are often not properly tested and many of whose clients
are well known to have used the products to routinely and
systematically torture men, women and children, Amnesty
International said.
Yet many governments -- including
the USA which is the largest producing country -- allow this trade and some such
as France have even helped to promote it. http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/ACT400041997?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CCYPRUS

Non-Lethal weapons-- NLW ( torture ) .... Less than Lethal
devicesDNW--
Demonic New World .... Dragon's New World
To Invade and Overwhelm every portal of your being
From the Pentagon

Rhode Island National Guard trained in use of less than lethal
weaponry on its own citizenry -- March 2, 2008The training exercise, "Operation
Quick Resolve," was designed to test the Guard's ability to
quickly alert, mobilize and deploy troops. In this case, the
scenario was a massive civil disturbance during a pandemic flu
scare.
Among the strategies they practiced: using
less-than-lethal tactics in crowd control.http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7952938&nav=menu20_2

Electromagnetic guns to be used to keep people from nuclear plants
Sandia -- Raytheon -- Air Force etc.
Weapon used on "adversaries" ( anyone who dares to
disagree )The DoE
Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance, together with the Department of Defense, is
"exploring the potential" of directed energy weapons
based on millimetre-wave rays.According to the DoE the
technology is capable of rapidly heating human skin to a pain
level that has been demonstrated as "very
effective at repelling people" without apparently burning
the skin or causing other secondary effects.
ADT [ Active Denial Technology ] emits a 95GHz
non-ionizing electromagnetic beam of energy that penetrates approximately 1/64 of an inch into
human skin tissue, where nerve receptors
are concentrated.
Within seconds, the beam will heat the exposed skin tissue to a
level where intolerable pain is experienced and natural defence mechanisms take
over.

Stun Guns used indiscriminantly in crowd control Weapons that can incapacitate
crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity
across them are being readied for sale to military and police
forces in the US and Europe.
The new breed of non-lethal weapons can be used on many people at
once and operate over far greater distances.A weapon under development by
Rheinmetall, based in Dorf, Germany,
creates a conducting channel by using a small explosive charge to
squirt a stream of tiny conductive fibres through the air
at the victim
(New Scientist print edition, 24 May 2003).
CARS IMMOBILIZED TOOMeanwhile, Xtreme
Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), based in Anderson,
Indiana, will be one of the first companies to market another
type of wireless weapon. Instead of using fibres, the $9000 Close
Quarters Shock Rifle projects an ionised gas, or plasma,
towards the target, producing a conducting channel. It will
also interfere with electronic ignition systems and stop
vehicles.
"We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like
water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single
sweep," claims XADS president Peter Bitar.

LASERSXADS is also planning a more advanced
weapon which it hopes will have a range of 100 metres or more.
Instead of firing ionised gas, it will probably use a
powerful laser to ionise the air itself. The idea has
been around for decades, says LaVerne Schlie, a laser expert at
the US Air Force Research Lab in Kirtland, New Mexico.
It has only become practical with advances in high-power
solid-state lasers.http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014

American
Military: using non-lethal weapons against the citizenry
locust-scorpions from the pit of hell ??? Revelation Chapter 9 ?
The Navy should
integrate weapons designed to incapacitate people into
war-fighting requirements, research and development, acquisition
plans and operations, the National Research Council of the
National Academies urged.
The panel's report has prompted a response from the US Joint
Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate.( Shawn
Turner is its
spokesman )

According to documents obtained by the
Sunshine Project, a non-governmental group
that opposes biological and chemical weapons, US officials and British military officials met in
London in November 2000 and agreed to take an active role in
planning and advocating "non-lethal" weapons.

The record of the meeting shows that the US
participants regarded calmatives as usable by the military as
riot-control agents in "non-armed conflict
situations such as peacekeeping, humanitarian and
counter-terrorism operations; or for limited defensive purposes
during armed conflict".Ed.
note.... Interpretation:
This also will be used for crowd-control in your neighborhood, after our guns are taken away.

Arms control specialists say the ruling
could depend on the exclusion from the CWC,[ Chemical Weapons Convention] which allows the use of some chemicals that permit quick
recovery for the purposes of "law enforcement including domestic
riot control".
Yet the US armed forces are forbidden
by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878
and related regulation from domestic law enforcement. Ed. note: Notice to new word
"domestic"; that's in your own home
!!!

At the November 2000 meeting, US
and British officials agreed to co-operate on a public affairs
campaign that "must attempt to counter the seemingly
inexplicable perception that somehow the use of [non- lethal weapons] is worse
than the use of lethal force".

According to Capt Turner, the JNLWD [ Joint non-lethal Weapons
Directorate] "would
consider the outcome of the [Moscow] hostage situation a failure". About 15 per cent of the
hostages died inhaling the anaesthetic
aerosol pumped into the siege theatre.They also raise possible
challenges to the rules of war that bar military attacks on
civilians, wounded soldiers or those who have surrendered. Once
someone is comatose, assessing his status is harder, or perhaps
impossiblehttp://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1037872542915&p=1012571727179

PiezoelectricThe bullet is constructed of piezoelectric material, used
in car starters and stove or cigarette lighters, where a spark
ignites gas. "We've taken a larger piece of that material
and encapsulated it in a bullet," LeBourgeois explains. On
impact, it discharges from a live round of ammunition and has the
capacity to be lethal.Mount Sinai School of Medicine
cardiac electrophysiologist Davendra Mehta stresses that indiscriminate
shocks can kill. Five percent of the
time the heart is in a very vulnerable cycle, he says. "There is no doubt a danger to people
getting these shocks because if it's in the vulnerable period it could induce a cardiac arrest," Mehta explains. "Police will have to be trained to
give these patients a second shock from an external defibrillator
to resuscitate them."
Despite such concerns, a company called ShockRounds, has agreed to produce LeBourgeois's bullets.

COMMON SENSE and
OBEDIENCEWhat if our government
wants our guns?
Although the Bill of Rights gives us the right for
self-protection to bear arms,
we must recognize that a totalitarian government seizes the guns
of the people.
Although that is not right, we must obey that command, no matter
how abhorrent that is.
"He who lives by the sword, will die by the sword" ,
said Jesus Christ.
To have guns ripped from our cold dead hands accomplishes
nothing.
Learn when to surrender and when not to surrender. Use common
sense at all times.
We do not surrender our morals.
"Render to Caesar the things that are of Caesar, and to God
the things that are of God."

all emphasis
added on this page by editor

Abomination
: A Government against its own people ...From the newswire, fair educational use :

Congress set to authorize "camps" for emergencies http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645National Emergency
Centers Establishment Act" A new bill introduced in Congress
authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to set up a
network of FEMA camp facilities to be
used to house U.S. citizens in the event of a national emergency.
The National
Emergency Centers Establishment Act or HR 645 mandates the establishment of national emergency
centers to be located on military installations
for the purpose of to providing temporary housing, medical,
and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families
dislocated due to an emergency or major
disaster, according to the bill.Ominously, the bill also states that the
camps can be used to meet other appropriate
needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland
Security,

Practicing on little Iceland for civil unrest In a Wednesday interview with the BBC, the
head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
predicted that the economic downturn will cause more
unrest."[It could happen] almost everywhere, in Europe
certainly, and also in emerging countries," he said.
"You've had some strikes that look like normal, usual
strikes, but it may worsen in the coming months."
Asked which countries were most at risk, Mr Strauss-Kahn
mentioned Hungary, Ukraine, Latvia and Belarus. "It can be
my own country [France], the UK, it can be eastern Europe,"
he said.
"The situation is really, really serious," he added.http://euobserver.com/9/27460/?rk=1

Pentagon ( R Gates ) to deploy 20,000 troops inside the U.S. ( localities )
3 Rapid-reaction forces"The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade, is based at
Fort Stewart, Georgia, and is already available for deployment, according to
General Victor Renuart, commander of the US
Northern Command, it said.
Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard and reserve units made
up of about 6,000 troops to
support local and state authorities nationwide, The Post said." [ Ed: Placed in the
major cities of America ??] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217.htmlhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJd63da5mM0wM8hDw0VkfJjebZbg"Before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response
 a nearly sevenfold increase in five years 
"would have been extraordinary to the point of
unbelievable," Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for
homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that
civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted
"a fundamental change in military culture," he saidBert Tussing, director of
homeland defense and security issues at the U.S. Army War
College's Center for Strategic Leadership, said the new Pentagon approach "breaks the
mold" by assigning an active-duty
combat brigade to the Northern
Command for the first time.Domestic emergency deployment may be
"just the first example of a series
of expansions in presidential and military authority," or
even an increase in domestic surveillance, said Anna Christensen
of the ACLU's National Security Project.
And Cato Vice President Gene Healy warned of "a creeping
militarization" of homeland security.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6140096.htmlLast Monday, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates ordered
defense officials to review whether the military,
Guard and reserves can respond
adequately to domestic disasters.http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081201/NEWS08/812010344/1025/NEWS01http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/

US ARMY Brigade ready to patrol US streets starting Oct. 1, 2008
"U.S. Army North " NorthCom"U.S. troops returning from
duty in Iraq will be carrying out homeland patrols in America
from October 1st [ 2008 ] in complete violation
of Posse Comitatus for the
purposes of helping with civil unrest and crowd
control - which could include dealing with unruly
Americans after a complete economic collapse..... the 3rd
Infantry Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team Will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North,
the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or
manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist
attacks.
... NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command
and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate
defense support of civil authorities.The unit would also be deployed
to deal with hostile crowds of Americans in the aftermath of a
massive economic depression,potential food riots
and race riots, if one defines the term crowd control
to match its reasonably applicable scenarios."http://www.infowars.com/?p=4803http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10341http://standeyo.com/NEWS/08_USA/081008.martial.law.htmlhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77860

WMR has
learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final
touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the
United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The
triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive
social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against
financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential
election that would result in rioting in major cities and
campuses around the country.http://www.heyokamagazine.com/heyoka.16.waynemadsen.htm

Defense Authorization Law
The accepted use of torture for interrogationOn a 308-122 vote, members
of the House supported specific language proposed by Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz., that prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment" of anyone in the custody of the
U.S. government.(
Ed : so they ship them elsewhere where torture is routine ?
McCain's definition only goes to the 2006 Defense Appropriations
Bill...
it is not defined as law ) Earlier in the day, McCain
and President Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, met in hopes of reaching a compromise on
McCain's proposals, but no agreements were reachedDespite McCain's
unwavering stance, the White House continues to push for some
level of exemption for officials working in the U.S. intelligence
services and most specifically the CIA. Sources familiar with the
negotiations said Wednesday that McCain and Hadley's one-on-one
meetings over the past month had centered on the White House's
request for some level of legal protection from liability for CIA
operatives should they be found in violation of the standards.[ Ed :
Didn't GHWBush use noise-torture against Noreiga and
also the nuns residing at the convent ? ] Such an exception would
allow interrogators to use a defense that a "reasonable
person" would not have thought their actions were illegal,
similar to military laws about following orders. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/15/MNGADG892M1.DTLAir
Force Chief Michael Wynne says to use non-lethal weapons upon
U.S. citizens before using in the battlefield
Secondly, why should our government be our enemy ?Nonlethal weapons such as
high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens
in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield,
the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.htmlEd:
This whole arguement is disgusting. First of all, all non-lethal
weapons are TORTURE and therefore should be used on
NO ONE.

"Mene, mene, tekel upharsin " Daniel 5:25--27
"Alternative interrogation practices"Lawyers
for the military allow for torture; disannul Geneva Accords of 1949
Ed: "everyman has his price" The administration also released a
brief letter in which the top lawyers for the military branches
said they found no legal objection to the White House
proposal to redefine akey provision of the Geneva ConventionsThe White House made clear that it
would fight on despite the Republican rebellion, with Bush saying
he would "resist any bill" that did not provide a legal
basis for the CIA to continue to employ what he has called
"alternative interrogation practices" for terrorism
suspectshttp://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/15/america/web.0915detain.php

It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy
Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that
generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something
solid, like a person (New
Scientist print edition, 12 October 2002).
The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock
rioters off their feet. The idea is to work out
how to generate a pulse which triggers pain
neurons without damaging tissue.
The contract, heavily censored before release,
asks researchers to look for
"optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak
nociceptor activation" - in other
words, cause
the maximum pain possible.
Studies on cells grown in the lab will identify how much pain can
be inflicted on someone before causing injury or death

New Scientist contacted two
researchers working on the project. Martin Richardson,
a laser expert at the University of Central Florida, US, refused
to comment. Brian Cooper, an expert in
dental pain at the University of Florida,http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7077

PDAs with facial recognition The Los Angeles Police
Department is seeking half a million dollars from the
federal government to expand the use of advanced facial-recognition
systems to identify criminal suspects.
Facial-recognition software in the device compared the image with
those in a database that includes photos (Ed. note: our
drivers licenses all have photo IDs that are entered into
databases)
closest match, with a 94% probability of accuracy ( what if you belong to the 6 %
unlikely ? )

The LAPD has been using two of the computers donated by their
developer, Santa Monica-based Neven Vision. The
firm, a pioneer in facial-recognition technology,
was looking to have its products field-tested.

arrested for alleged offenseOn one occasion, Wang said, the
technology "cleared" a man whom officers suspected of
being someone else.Yes, but his record
still shows an arrest, right ?There is a great possibility of mistakes, and cameras
are operated by human beings with all their own prejudices."
At present, no one has accurately used a facial-recognition
system to pick faces out of a crowd," said Jim Wayman,
director of San Jose State's Biometric Test Center.http://www.latimes.com/la-me-gangs25dec25.story

Showcasing
Police might at GOP convention
It's called theLong
Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of
blasting warnings, orders or anything else at an
ear-splitting 150 decibels.
Authorities on Thursday unveiled a mini-arsenal of devices and
counterterrorism equipment they're getting ready for the
convention, which opens a week from Monday. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&u=/ap/20040819/ap_on_el_pr/gop_convention_protest_12&printer=1Riot
helmets with cameras -- Federal Protective Service The signal from the cameras is
sent wirelessly to the mobile and control units, then fed into
the Internet in encrypted form, Libby said. The handheld devices
get the image from the Internet through a wireless connection.Fortress
New York : Frozen Zonehttp://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/nyc-nycam263942611aug26,0,7125173.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-politicsWith nearly a quarter-million
protestors expected, police have been trained to arrest crowds
that become violent. Some officers will even be equipped with TV
cameras in their riot helmets, part of the stream of nearly 400
video sources feeding into the main command center, staffed by
116 people from 66 separate agencies.

Robo Cops in Beta --Summer 2004
If you're in New York City when the Republican National
Conventions kicks off next week, watch for police officers
watching you with extra sets of megapixel peepers.
The Federal Protective Service has outfitted patrol
officers with helmets embedded with wireless video
cameras. The images from the helmet-cams and
traditional surveillance cameras mounted in federal buildings are
streamed to a headquarters-on-wheels where deployment decisions
can be made.

LiveWave Inc. provided the network capabilities through their FirstView product, a combination
video encoder, camera controller and server that supports
thousands of cameras, sensors, and users.TheFeature earlier this year, smart firefighter
helmets will provide emergency personnel with an "augmented
reality" displaythat overlays
text and images onto their view through the helmet.
Meanwhile, command and control officers can help guide the rescue
efforts by sharing the view of the firefighters inside a blaze. http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101016

Comment by this editor:Torture is reprehensible to all human beings and it is
the supreme motivational factor in getting a person to go against
their will or conscience. We all hate pain, and our basic natural
instinct is to avoid pain at all cost.
But can anything justify going against our conscience ? No.

"And
fear not them which kill the body [ including torture ] , but are not able to kill the
soul:
but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell"
Matthew 10:28

"And I say unto you My friends, be not afraid of them that
kill the body, and after that have no more that they can
do."
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear:
fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell;
yea, I say unto you, fear Him.
and Luke 12: 4, 5

Fear Tactics
.... "fear hath torment " I John
4:18
The System is trying to wear us down, break us down and
demoralize us by constantly talking about ---and graphically
depicting--- torture on the news and in the movies (
"Hostel", detention centers etc. ).
This is propaganda, and it is also a brainwashing technique.
The System knows that if they can scare you enough, your
imagination alone will keep you from doing your own will, and
these tactics will try to persuade you to go against your deepest
convictions.

What are we to do in the face of torture ?

1. First of all, we MUST not allow our minds to think upon it, or
dwell upon it NO MATTER WHAT. Each time the media focuses on
torture, TURN IT OFF. We must feed our Faith and starve our
doubts.

2. Next, we feed our Faith by reading the Word of God which
plainly demonstrates to us God's power over the physical world. (
The Book of Exodus for example, among thousands of examples).

3. Next, we read as many biographies ( testimonies) of overcomers
... those who endured hardships, suffering and yes, even torture
and yet released the power of God in their lives to overcome even
torture.

"And
they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony
and they loved not their lives unto the death " Revelation
12:11

Torture can be overcome
only by the power and grace of God. Daniel Chapter 3
Building up our own stamina by our own determination will only
get us so far. We overcome by allowing God's grace to flow
through us. We build up our strength by asking for His strength.

4. We connect ( through prayer and meditation) with the most
tortured Person in all of History ... Jesus Christ. " He
was marred more than any man" -- Isaiah 52:14
We look at His nailed pierced hands Psalm 22 . We hear the mocking and scorn and blasphemy.
We see the spittle, the torn out beard Isaiah 50: 6 , the merciless lashes upon all of His body.
We sense the utter agony He went through, even though He was
righteous in all ways....never deserving any of the torture He
received. He drank the cup to the dregs. He set His face as
flint.

When we behold Jesus in all of this ignominy, we see the
tremendous love He has for us.
When we are moved by His love to love Him back with all of our
heart, then it is that
perfect LOVE which casts out fear. 1 John 4: 18

Torture -- no matter the time element involved ---is always
temporary.
Loving God, and enjoying perfect bliss for all eternity, is
FOREVER and ever.

"When I look
at those policemen, I am unable to understand:
Why did not even one of them stop in the name of ethics and ask
himself if the order he received was moral or just?
They simply acted as robots, at best, but in many cases as
genuine sadists."
-- 17 yr. old victim of police brutality in Israel ; April 2007 (
Arutz Sheva 4-22-07 )